Horror - Kids Fiction

Can ancient, unknown creatures surface in your own backyard? Twelve-year-old Pablo has lived in a small California desert town his whole life, and the sticky black tar puddle by the corral fence has been little more than a nuisance to walk around or step...

Laughs, ghosts, and a lip-gloss-loving teen sleuth Sherry (short for Sherlock) Holmes Baldwin is spending spring break in California with her best friend, Junie. She can't wait to hang out in the sun, hit the mall, and spend time with cutie-pie Josh. Then ....

Author: Matt PhilipISBN-13: 9798224244249Publisher: Bright Minds BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2024Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d

After suffering the loss of her father, the Myers family was left reeling. Mounting bills and inflation began to pile onto Melissa and her brother Zak's mother. When she saw an advertisement on a house for sale in Waverly, Iowa, it almost seemed too...

Gather around the campfire with 20 spooky, spine-tingling tales that blend folklore, urban legend, and our darkest fears.The great outdoors has never been so terrifying! Featuring iconic landscapes like the Grand Canyon and Redwood National Park, this book will haunt your dreams long after...

Down in the Dark Deep Where the Puddlers Dwell takes the adventurous on a stroll down a deserted lane, much like the one right around the corner from you now. But down the lane, there are things perhaps better left alone. Things we should...

A spooky tale of virtual school gone very, very wrong...Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote...

Reader beware! You hold in your hands the gateway to horror.These five original short stories are the beginning of your journey into the dark domains of the supernatural, the weird and grotesque, and the starkly terrifying. Read them alone at your own risk. Finish...

Now in paperback, an equal parts heart-pounding and heartfelt middle-grade mystery about facing--and accepting--your fears, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and The Parker Inheritance Bones Malone feels like he can't do anything right in his new small town: He almost punched the son...

We all know what human children do when it's a dark and stormy night. But what do young monsters do when the lights go off, the door shuts, and the dark and scary things creep out? They have a party!Bring home a book that...

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to "change" her and...

Escape from the Dungeons of Snerbville is the third installment in the quirky, creepy, hilarious Bonkers series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Carman.Barker Mifflin is back!Sort of. He fell into a hole--or more accurately, he rode a forty-foot chicken down into...

If Lemony Snicket rebooted the Goosebumps franchise, you'd have something close to Bonkers: the quirky, creepy, hilarious new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Carman.Barker Mifflin never leaves home without his go bag, his army boots, and his trusty flyswatter. As...

Crowscratch is back with more spine-chilling tales of the supernatural, crafted with his signature blend of horror, humor, and heart. In SPACESHIP SPINACH, two boys with mutant powers escape a top secret government lab, on a quest to find the source of the alien...

Author: Yamile Saied M?ndez, Justina Ireland, Hanna AlkafISBN-10: 0063298228ISBN-13: 9780063298224Publisher: Clarion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs

Cruel Nature is first time author D. B. Albiza's humble love letter to the dog-eared horror paperbacks of our youth. It's a young reader's initiation into what the author hopes will be a life long love affair with the genre.Seven tales deliver brief terrifying...

Penelope Tredwell, the pen behind bestselling author, Montgomery Flinch, is cursed with writer's block. She needs a sensational new story or her magazine, the Penny Dreadful, will go under. So when a mysterious letter arrives, confessing to the impossible crime of stealing the Crown...

Edward Gorey meets Downton Abbey in a deliciously ghostly caper about mischievous children who won't stay inside their gilded portrait frames. Welcome to Shiverhawk Hall It's a big old house full of treasure, mystery, and stories. Here, just look up on the wall. See...

The Barn is a unique short story that excludes all of the boring, excessive details that you normally find in conventional literature.The fast moving Supernatural Thriller is sure to make the little hairs on the back of your neck bristle. After certain chapters you...

A ghastly green figure with bolts in its neck lurches toward a helpless victim. It's Frankenstein! Popular culture transformed Mary Shelley's infamous character into a cartoonish caricature. In fact, many people are surprised to learn that Frankenstein isn't the name of the fictional monster...

Dovey learns that demons lurk in places other than the dark corners of her mind in this southern gothic fantasy from the author of the Blud series. A year ago, Hurricane Josephine swept through Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction--and taking...

A young man gets a sliver from a strange book. That night, beneath the glow of a full moon, the man transforms into the Word Eater. The beast prowls the streets, searching for words to eat. If the Librarian doesn't stop it, every word...

RavenWing creates a popular app. Readers can download their favorite horror tales. But the app sends more than eBooks their way. Hungry ravens swarm out of thin airAuthor: Michael DahlISBN-10: 143423231XISBN-13: 9781434232311Publisher: Stone Arch BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 72Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.10h x 5.00w x...

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this "delightfully eerie" (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade series tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts,...

Dusty Milligan, like most boys his age, is always ready for an adventure, especially around Christmas break. The area around his family's farm is the setting for these fun-filled and thoughtful stories. Dusty, his sister Lucy, his friend Ned, and many other interesting characters...

Be warned, this isn't a book of fairy tales that always have a happy ending...Included in this debut from author R. C. Hill are eleven spooky tales about kids facing fearful circumstances across a range of everyday situations.Two brothers are enjoying their new in-ground...

After a prank goes horribly wrong, you find yourself on a bus to summer camp for wayward juveniles - Camp crypt. But something's not right. Why is the camp director sparkling? And does the bus driver have horns?Pick the right Trail and you might...

One twin died. One twin lived. But did the dead twin ever let go?From K. R. Alexander, a bestselling master of such middle-grade frights as The Collector and The Fear Zone, comes the story of a girl whose life is inextricably linked to that...

Goosebumps now on Disney+!Reader beware--it's the original scare!In this exclusive retro collector's tin are five terrifying Goosebumps books including: Welcome to Camp NightmareEgg Monsters From MarsGo Eat Worms!The Girl Who Cried MonsterThe Blob That Ate EveryoneAuthor: R. L. StineISBN-10: 1546164138ISBN-13: 9781546164135Publisher: Scholastic PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

ABLAZE is going back to press on THE NIGHTCRAWLERS Vol 1, this time with a trade paperback edition! This is your chance to get your hands on this all-ages, supernatural adventure! When things go bump in the night, they bump back. If you think...

When the guests of the Shangri-La Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town! Illustrations.Author: Ron RoyISBN-10: 061316122XISBN-13: 9780613161220Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1999Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 7.86h x...

Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation "His Face All Red," in print for the first time. Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features...

With time travel and mysteries that need solving, the Galactic Academy of Science (G.A.S.) series instructs readers on how to think like scientists. Under the guidance of a Dude or Dudette from the future, the middle school characters are faced with treacherous, present-day crimes...

On a coach bound for Cricklewood, the orphan boy Touch caught his first glimpse of the haunt named The Great Chaffalo. According to rumor, he was once a famous magician who could turn a pile of straw into a horse. Now, Touch needs the...

"While turning around, I catch a glimpse of a strange stain on the wall behind her. It wasn't there before. Or at least, I don't think it was. As a matter of fact, I know it wasn't, because when we came in, I remember...

A collection of funny stories sure to delight seven-year-olds, with a gorgeous cover illustrated by Adam Stower.Author: Helen PaibaISBN-10: 1509818324ISBN-13: 9781509818327Publisher: MacMillan Children's BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2016Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.50d

Nine years ago, Jessie was in a car crash and died. After she was buried, she awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. And there were others-gangs of undead roaming the Indiana woods, fighting, hunting, hidden. But when a...

The third chapter in the Berge Sisters series!In the woods of Stone Hollow, a town where dense trees shade the sidewalks and glowing mushrooms grow wild, a strange artifact has appeared as if out of nowhere.Stepsisters Lacey and Cal are excited to study the...

Dusty Milligan, like most boys his age, is always ready for an adventure, especially around Christmas break. The area around his family's farm is the setting for these fun-filled and thoughtful stories. Dusty, his sister Lucy, his friend Ned, and many other interesting characters...

This spine-tingling volume collects some of Robert Louis Stevenson's stories first published in the late 19th century for a new generation of young readers--featuring a freshly reimagined cover! Dr. Henry Jekyll is a respectable man, sociable and well-liked, so his friends Mr. Utterson and...

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest. The house was supposed to be a...

Mary Shelley's timeless and beloved gothic novel first published in the early 19th century returns with a freshly reimagined cover for a new generation of young readers! When ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein animates a humanoid figure he crafted from stolen corpses, he gets...

Their laughter grows louder, Their little feet patter. Don't make them angry Or your world will shatter. There's no where to go. Chills run down your spine. No where to run, And no where to hide. To them it's a game, And you're the...

Look around, see what you do. Everybody's angry with you.Hunter Colson is popular, gets good grades, and is the star soccer player on his way to a high school scholarship.He also has a poor attitude, likes to muck around, and nothing is his fault.Ever.So,...

A ghost must team up with the living girl she's been haunting in order to defeat a monster out of her nightmares and save her little brother, from the author of The Curse of Eelgrass Bog. Maudie isn't your typical twelve-year-old girl--she's the ghost...

Adapted and illustrated edition of Frankenstein at easy-to-read level for a new generation of readers aged 7+. Young scientist Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with creating life. When he succeeds, however, he is horrified by his creation, which he considers to be a monster. Rejected...

Introducing: Ghost Stories for KidsThe English Reading Tree Book 70A captivating look at some Weird Ghost Stories.Sometimes things happen that can't be explained by logic.Ghosts have fascinated both young and old for centuries. Are any of the stories that we hear true? Well, that's...

Creak...Crash...BOO Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.Author: Alvin SchwartzISBN-10: 0060252715ISBN-13: 9780060252717Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/1984Pages: 64Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.02w x 0.40dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.5Point Value: 0.5Interest...

Author: A. J. SteinISBN-10: 1960470019ISBN-13: 9781960470010Publisher: Spooky Stone BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d

A thrilling collection of myths, legends and ghost stories from War Horse author and Britain's best-loved storyteller Michael Morpurgo. Since the beginning of time, strange and mysterious things have happened here ... At the furthest edge of Britain, where the sea gently washes over...